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Taiwan tries hand at COVID diplomacy again with Somaliland vaccine gift

FILE PHOTO: Boxes of the domestically developed Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen at a vaccination site in Taipei, Taiwan August 23, 2021. REUTERS/Annabelle Chih

Taiwan's gift of 150,000 doses of its domestically developed Medigen COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region, the Taiwanese foreign ministry said on Monday, part of the island's renewed pandemic diplomacy push.

Taiwan has donated millions of face masks and other goods around the world in what the government has called the "Taiwan can help, Taiwan is helping" programme to show the island is a responsible member of the international community, despite being locked out of most global bodies because of China's objections.

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